Professor David FidockScientific Advisor to the President of Institut Pasteur, Institut Pasteur
David A. Fidock, PhD, is the Scientific Advisor to the President of Institut Pasteur in September 2025. He presently divides his time between Institut Pasteur and Columbia University in New York, where he is the CS Hamish Young Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and a Professor of Medical Sciences. At Columbia, he is also the founding Director of the Center for Malaria Therapeutics and Antimicrobial Resistance. He completed his undergraduate degree in genetics at the University of Adelaide in South Australia and his PhD in microbiology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where he was earlier awarded the prestigious Emile Roux Fellowship. He pursued postdoctoral research at UC Irvine and the NIH. He began his faculty position at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine before moving to Columbia University in 2007.
In 2014, he was awarded the Bailey K. Ashford Medal for distinguished work in tropical medicine from the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH), and in 2016, he received the ASTMH Trager Medal for transformative research in molecular parasitology. In 2016, he was named Global Australian of the Year Award in Life Sciences, presented in Sydney by the then Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull. In 2020, he was awarded the Project of the Year by the Medicines for Malaria Venture. In 2023, he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2025 he served as the elected President of the ASTMH. In April 2025 he received the Alice and CC Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology from the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. David has over 320 research publications that have been citedo ver 44,000 times. Presently he serves as a member of the WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group.
David’s major role at the Institut Pasteur is to help build connections with academic and industrial partners across Europe and the UK, including actively contributing to the recently signed Alliance between Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Oxford University, Soleil, and Diamond Light Source.
